For obvious marketing reasons, the most recent edition of Andrew Hodges’ Alan Turing: The Enigma labels itself as “the book that inspired the film The Imitation Game”, and yet the Alans contained ...

World War II had many heroes whose names everyone knows: Winston Churchill, Dwight Eisenhower, and Douglas MacArthur are only a few. But those who worked behind the scenes are less known, often ...

Germany's top-secret World War II code was called "Enigma." The Englishman who played a key role in breaking that code was very much an enigma himself. Anthony Mason this morning helps decode the ...

Alan Turing’s lost notebook, in which he worked on the foundations of modern computer science, was sold for a whopping $1,025,000 at the Fine Books & Manuscripts Sale at Bonhams, which took place ...

Germany’s top-secret World War II code was called “Enigma,” and the gay Englishman who played a key role in breaking that code — Alan Turing — was very much an enigma himself. CBS News’ Anthony Mason ...

Nearly everyone has heard the name Alan Turing by now, thanks in no small part to the 2014 film The Imitation Game, which was nominated for eight Academy Awards. Before the film, there was Hugh ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rare papers of Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing fetch record sum at UK auction A collection of rare scientific papers written by ...

The BBC said the Government Communications Headquarters was releasing the papers on the occasion of the centenary of Turing's birth. The GCHQ is quoted as saying that the typed papers with handwritten ...

"The Imitation Game" helped make World War II code breaker Alan Turing a household name. But for all the attention he has gotten for breaking Nazi Germany's Enigma code, the British mathematician ...

Papers written by Alan Turing during his famous work breaking the Germans' "Enigma" code have been found being used as crude insulation in a hut where the pioneering computer scientist and ...